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Postgres Deployment Engineer (Nix)

2w ago
SupabaseSupabase

Postgres Deployment Engineer (Nix)

2w ago
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Responsible for owning the stability and deployment of Supabase's Postgres products, focusing on packaging software, managing PostgreSQL lifecycles, and optimizing deployments.

About the company

  • Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.
  • 280+ team members
  • 55+ countries
  • 20+ languages spoken
  • $500M raised
  • 500,000+ community members
  • We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it’s in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities.

Responsibilities

  • We’re looking for a Postgres Deployment Engineer to join our PostgreSQL team and help elevate our PostgreSQL offerings.
  • You’ll work closely with the PostgreSQL team, playing an instrumental role in technical decision-making and refining internal methodologies. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in async, fast-paced environments and is excited about building developer tools that scale to millions.
  • The focus of this role is owning the stability and deployment of our products. You will act as a bridge between product and infrastructure teams to improve the reliability of deployments and upgrades. You will have co-responsibility for builds and deployments via our public supabase/postgres GitHub repository, which bundles features into Docker images and AWS AMIs for cloud and local use.

Conditions

  • Fully Remote We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world.
  • ESOP Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together.
  • Tech Allowance Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.
  • Health Benefits Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family’s health are important to us.
  • Annual Off-Sites Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It’s a highlight of our year.
  • Flexible Work We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.
  • Professional Development Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.

How to apply

  • We keep things simple, async-friendly, and respectful of your time:
  • Apply – Our team will review your application.
  • Intro Call – A short video chat to get to know each other.
  • Interviews – Up to four calls with: Team Leads
  • Future teammates
  • Someone cross-functional from product, growth, or engineering (depending on the role)
  • Someone from our leadership/founding team
  • Decision – We may follow up with a final question or go straight to offer.
  • All communication is remote and we aim to move fast.

Other

  • Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.
  • Package software into our supabase/postgres repo using Nix (with flakes), and help us transition our packaging from traditional to Nix packaging more over time.
  • Manage PostgreSQL lifecycles, ensuring timely major, minor, and extension upgrades.
  • Expand platform release systems to allow developers to increasingly self-service.
  • Optimize CI/CD and tooling, specifically expanding GitHub Actions, team tooling, and testing/release approaches.
  • Resolve production issues by proactively identifying and fixing problems in customer deployments.
  • Maintain best practices and tests to ensure enhanced stability and decreased deployment risks.
  • Have 3+ years of experience with PostgreSQL and its ecosystem, including extensions and performance optimization.
  • Are an Infrastructure Expert with proven experience in management, tooling, and optimization.
  • Are proficient in the Nix package management system (including flakes) alongside Ansible, Packer, Docker, QEMU/KVM, AWS, and Kubernetes.
  • Have experience building for multiple architectures , specifically Linux and Darwin/macOS aarch64 targets.
  • Are comfortable with polyglot environments , including builds for C/C++, Go, JavaScript, and Rust-based projects.
  • Communicate clearly across both technical and non-technical audiences, especially when interacting with customers.
  • Have experience in async or globally distributed teams and value independent, proactive problem-solving.
  • Are willing to mentor , taking on responsibility for teaching the engineering team to use and contribute to our Nix-based work.
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